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Four former youth detention center workers charged with sexual assault made initial court appearances in New Hampshire on Thursday, including a man accused of abusing a girl multiple times in a candy storage closet at a second state-run facility.
The state has made 11 arrests this month in connection with a broad investigation into physical and sexual abuse allegations at the Youth Development Center in Manchester, now called the Sununu Youth Services Center. The allegations against Victor Malavet are the first, however, to involve the Youth Detention Services Unit in Concord, where children were held while awaiting disposition of their cases by the courts.
Sex abuse charges expand to 2nd New Hampshire youth center
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020, file photo is the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, N.H. Four more arrests have been made in connection with a broad criminal investigation into physical and sexual abuse allegations at New Hampshire s youth detention center. The attorney general s office said Wednesday, April 21, 2021 that Stanley Watson, Victor Malavet, Trevor Middleton and Jonathan Brand have been charged with 14 counts of sexual assault involving five victims between 1997 and 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Modified: 4/22/2021 10:14:00 PM
CONCORD Four former youth detention center workers charged with sexual assault made initial court appearances in New Hampshire on Thursday, including a man accused of abusing a girl multiple times in a candy storage closet at a second state-run facility.
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Victor Malavet was arrested April 22, 2021.
CONCORD, NH – Twenty years ago, Victor Malavet, 58, was transferred from the Youth Detention Center’s Youth Detention Services Unit in Concord to the main campus in Manchester because an investigation was underway concerning allegations of inappropriate behavior he was having with a detained teenage girl.
Malavet was never charged in that case, after the teen denied anything happened because she didn’t want him to get in trouble. However, that ended Wednesday when Malavet was arrested on seven counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault.
On Wednesday, authorities arrested four more former YDC counselors, including Malavet, on charges they sexually abused teens being detained by the state. That brings the number of former counselors facing criminal charges to 11. The investigation, headed by the New Hampshire Attorney General, is ongoing.